What? The Doctor Doesn't Like the Results?

Ah, the "childhood obesity" and "obese baby" epidemic. The parents are probably following the advice given to them by the mass media to prevent OGGABOOGA DEATHFATZ!! in their baby and some sane person in the doctor's office finally pointed out that the baby is looking a bit too thin and he figured be better cover his ass and say he told them to feed her more.

I feel for the parents. They're damned, and probably threatened by CPS with child abuse, if they feed her normally and she gains a lot, damned - and arrested - when they don't and she remains thin.

Appleton couple charged with neglect
11:19 PM, Nov. 12, 201

APPLETON — An Appleton couple have been charged with felony child neglect for withholding food from their 14-month-old daughter against the repeated advice of doctors.

A criminal complaint alleges that Christopher and Mary Sultze of Appleton failed to heed advice from several medical professionals that their daughter needed to be fed more food due to concerns with her low weight and failure to thrive during regular well baby visits and special checkups.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday before Outagamie County Judge Dee Dyer for Mary Sultze, who remains in jail under a $10,000 cash bond.

Christopher Sultze was released from jail Thursday after posting $10,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing has yet to be scheduled in his case.

Both parents resisted doctors' advice to give the child more than they were providing to her and became irritated at times and upset with recommendations to provide her with more calories, the complaint said.

An Outagamie County child protective services intake investigator was contacted Sept. 9 when the girl, who had been born at 8 pounds, 2.8 ounces, on July 9, 2010, had gained less than 3 pounds at age 14 months when she weighed 10 pounds, 14 ounces.

Christopher Sultze said the family follows a very low cholesterol diet and told a doctor that he "doesn't want to have obese children."

On Aug. 24, 2011, he told staff at Children's Hospital of the Fox Valley, Neenah, that doctors were forcing his daughter to drink more milk and eat more food "just trying to stretch her stomach." She had gained 10 ounces during a 20-hour stay in the hospital where she was fed about 1,000 calories as recommended by a dietician for her age.

Dr. Mary Bartel told police that she believes the child was not gaining weight because she was not getting enough calories at home. She said both parents kept insisting that the child was going to "get fat" while she was in the hospital and Christopher Sultze was upset over what he considered overfeeding of his daughter.

Bartel described the child as being cachetic, which she said means her muscle mass was being consumed by her body. The doctor added that the child was "essentially starving" and had "no subcutaneous fat on her."

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I particularly love this part:
"she was fed about 1,000 calories as recommended by a dietician for her age."

So, a newborn to 14 month old baby is supposed to have 1000 calories? So why is that also the number my doctor tells me *I* should be eating at age 58? Under 1000 is starving the child, causing harm. Hmmm.

Another article about this has this paragraph:

"What we believe we'll be able to show in trial is evidence that Ms. Sultze and her husband intentionally withheld food from their young child starting, really shortly after she was born," said Outagamie County Assistant District Attorney Andrew Maier."

Gee, too bad the doctor who delivered me is no longer alive. Those were his exact orders to the nurses at the hospital and to my parents when I was born. They were ordered to dilute my formula in half because I was too fat as a newborn. I was born at 7 pounds, weighed 10 the next morning, so he immediately gave the order to starve me. Didn't do anything but slow my metabolic rate down to a crawl before I was even a week old, dooming me to a life of being fat and unable to lose weight at even the lowest starvation level of calories. Thanks, Doc.